As the election campaign wraps up, the impression of the Liberals being out of touch with women persists, but some solutions can be found in their political rivals.
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With polling day just around the corner, six experts analyse the political movements across the country, and what it might mean electorally.
Labor and the Coalition have both made some big housing policy announcements this election, but there are real problems going unaddressed.
Gen Z and Millennial women are more likely than men to be undecided voters. They’re also more likely to vote based on cost-of-living concerns.
With long experience in parliament behind him, the former Queensland policeman is looking to take the top job. But he has his work cut out.
After an election campaign largely silent on women’s safety issues, the major parties have unveiled their policies. They fall well short of what is needed.
The Liberal Party’s idea of equality means treating everyone the same, rather than addressing structures loaded against women. It’s doing the party enormous damage.
If recent trends continue, about half of all voters could cast their ballots before election day, May 3. How is early voting changing the way candidates campaign?
Politicians can make it hard to hold them to their promises. Here are some of the tactics they use.
The debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton had its moments, but viewers learned little more than they already knew.
Almost half of candidates contesting this election are women. But for the major parties, women are still more likely to be picked for harder to win seats than men.
In what’s sure to be a closely fought election, every vote counts, but some seats will see particularly tight races. Which ones are most at play?
The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
The surge of successful independent MPs at the 2022 election shows no sign of changing – and in fact may grow more powerful still.
The coming federal election may show that Malcolm Fraser’s version of liberalism still has a place in Australia’s politics.
Anthony Albanese is improving in the preferred prime minister stakes, but the overall margins remain tight.
As expected, Labor lost ground from its extraordinary result in 2021, but those votes did not necessarily go to the Liberals.
Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister must prioritize the further expansion of the his government’s child-care program in the years ahead.
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.
While there’s plenty of information in the latest data disclosure, Australians are still in the dark about exactly who funds our political parties at election time.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Politics, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Emerita Professor of Politics, Adelaide University
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Professor of History and Politics, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Professor, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor's professorial fellow, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University